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Scout X-3 | Explorer 16

Vought | United States of America
Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA
Dec. 16, 1962, 2:33 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Explorer 16 was the second in the series of micrometeoroid satellites orbited by NASA. Its purpose was to obtain data on the near-earth meteoroid environment, thus providing an accurate estimate of the probability of penetration in spacecraft structures by meteoroids and allowing a more confident definition of the relationship between penetration flux and material thickness to be derived.

Low Earth Orbit
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Thor Agena D | KH-4 17

McDonnell Douglas | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Dec. 14, 1962, 9:26 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The KH-4 (Keyhole-4) was fourth version in the Corona-program to build an optical reconnaissance satellite.

Low Earth Orbit
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Thor Delta B | Relay 1

McDonnell Douglas | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Dec. 13, 1962, 11:30 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Relay 1 was principally a communications satellite. Included in its payload were radiation experiments designed to map the earth's radiation belts.

Elliptical Orbit
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Thor Agena D | Poppy 3A & 3B

McDonnell Douglas | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Dec. 13, 1962, 4:07 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Poppy was the follow-on ELINT system, which succeeded the Grab ELINT satellite system.

Low Earth Orbit
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Thor Agena D | KH-4 16

McDonnell Douglas | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Dec. 4, 1962, 9:30 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The KH-4 (Keyhole-4) was fourth version in the Corona-program to build an optical reconnaissance satellite.

Low Earth Orbit
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Thor DM-21 Agena-B | KH-4 15

United States Air Force | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Nov. 24, 1962, 10 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The KH-4 (Keyhole-4) was fourth version in the Corona-program to build an optical reconnaissance satellite.

Low Earth Orbit
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Saturn I | Saturn SA-3

Chrysler | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Nov. 16, 1962, 5:45 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Third test flight of the Saturn I launch vehicle. It carried an experiment for Project Highwater.

Suborbital
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Atlas Agena B | Samos-E6 5

United States Air Force | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Nov. 11, 1962, 8:17 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Samos E-6 (Satellite and Missile Observation System) was an attempt to create an medium-resolution reconnaissance satellite with film return via reentry capsule.

Polar Orbit
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Thor DM-21 Agena-B | KH-4 14

United States Air Force | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Nov. 5, 1962, 10:04 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The KH-4 (Keyhole-4) was fourth version in the Corona-program to build an optical reconnaissance satellite.

Low Earth Orbit
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Molniya 8K78 | Mars 2a

Strategic Rocket Forces | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Nov. 4, 1962, 3:35 p.m.
Status: Launch Failure
Mission:

Mars lander mission which failed when the booster/spacecraft complex broke up during the burn to Mars trajectory.

Heliocentric N/A
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